This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I can see the (?) today
There are no (?)
No (?)
All is withering away
The mistakes that we make everyday
The monsters are back in our lives
I couldn't find a single thing that I liked
Spinning circles in my mind
Topic of conversation
There were people staring
Loss of patience
Trying to work out our destiny
I suppose this isn't all
That we (?)
Then what are we to lose but (?)
All around (?)
(?)
I swear I lost my mind a long time ago
I know all of this (?)
I do I do
You should be living
than wasting yourself
you have to want it deep down
we're not invincible
Everything in wanting more than
you are willing to give back
Everything in wanting more than
you deserve in return
Everything in wanting more than you are
You should be living!
Living, breathing, growing, I've been learning to love
Living, breathing, growing, I've been learning to love like you
Everything in wanting more than
you are willing to give back
Everthing in wanting more than
you deserve in return
Everything in wanting more than you are
There are no (?)
No (?)
All is withering away
The mistakes that we make everyday
The monsters are back in our lives
I couldn't find a single thing that I liked
Spinning circles in my mind
Topic of conversation
There were people staring
Loss of patience
Trying to work out our destiny
I suppose this isn't all
That we (?)
Then what are we to lose but (?)
All around (?)
(?)
I swear I lost my mind a long time ago
I know all of this (?)
I do I do
You should be living
than wasting yourself
you have to want it deep down
we're not invincible
Everything in wanting more than
you are willing to give back
Everything in wanting more than
you deserve in return
Everything in wanting more than you are
You should be living!
Living, breathing, growing, I've been learning to love
Living, breathing, growing, I've been learning to love like you
Everything in wanting more than
you are willing to give back
Everthing in wanting more than
you deserve in return
Everything in wanting more than you are
Lyrics submitted by YellowBird1
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